PMX has some means of typesetting informational text on the page, such as
Tt (title) and h (heading). When typesetting modern music such as jazz, it
often comes to writing text directly in the scores (such as "solo ad lib"  
or a box indicating "Intro", "A" or "Bridge"). I mostly use inline TeX
macros for this kind of typesetting, but I often find it tricky and
time-consuming to move things around by adjusting horizontal and vertical
offset. If I later change the layout a little, such as line breaks, I have
to do this all over again.

I wonder if you experienced PMX:ers and MusicTeX:ers can give me advice on
the easiest solutions for doing the following:

 * Printing revisions, copyright information, dates, etc at the bottom or 
   top of each page.

 * Using more than one line for titles (Tt, Tc).

 * Globally redefine PMX fonts (i use \smalltype in Tc).

 * Positioning segno and coda symbols (i use \loffset and \roffset).

 * Positioning text like "Solo ad lib" and "D. C. al Coda" (i use
   \loffset, \roffset and \zchar).

 * Using note symbols (segno, coda, quarter note) in dacapo and metronome 
   directions.

 * Positioning section marks such as [Intro], [A] and [Bridge] (i use 
   \loffset, \roffset, \zchar and \box).

 * Print a shorter line at the end of a piece (if, for example, only one
   or two bars is left).


// Stefan


_______________________________________________
TeX-music mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

Reply via email to